In This Section

• Overview
• Center for Children's Rights
  • Certificate in Children’s Rights
  • The CCR Fellowship Program
  • CCR Colloquia Series
  • The Children’s Rights Clinic
  • Whittier Journal of Child & Family Advocacy
  • National Juvenile Law Moot Court Competition
  • 2013 Distinguished Speaker Series
• Center for Intellectual Property Law
• Center for International and Comparative Law
• Legal Clinics
• Private and Public Externship Program
• Institute of Student and Graduate Academic Support
• Institute for Trial and Appellate Practice
• Institute for Writing and Professional Skills
• Study Abroad

Center for Children’s Rights

Hundreds of thousands of children annually encounter the American legal system in cases that involve abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights, special education, dissolutions of marriage, delinquency, mental health commitments, paternity, adoption, and other family matters. Too many of these children receive inadequate or sometimes even no legal representation, leaving children with little voice in legal matters. In 1994, Whittier Law School founded the Center for Children’s Rights (CCR) to address this pressing need. CCR trains students to represent the legal rights of children and serves as a community resource. If you want to specialize in children’s law, Whittier Law School offers you one of the most comprehensive children’s law programs in the nation.